Posted on 12/28/2017 11:46:03 AM PST by jdsteel
They stand like surreal monuments in the California scrubland: prototypes of Donald Trump's proposed "big, beautiful" border wall between the US and Mexico.
The eight 30ft high slabs are the first tangible part of the controversial project that the US President says will help solve America's immigration problems.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
The border wall does not need to go 2000 continuous miles. Probably 500 miles of wall in the places that are easiest to cross would deter most of the people just walking in. Some would come in through the gaps, but it should cut the numbers way down. Or maybe we need 750 miles of walls well placed in the most accessible areas. But it probably doesn’t need to be 2000 miles.
Anyway, build 500 miles in the areas with the heaviest illegal entry and then you can monitor where the leaks spring up, and go later and build more wall there, until the leaks are minimal.
I think tunneling will be more likely than people going a hundred miles out of their way to circumvent the wall. Some will, but not masses.
High sensitivity sensors at the footings to detect even deep tunnelling, ability to withstand ramming by machinery and dynamite blasts, methods that prevent scaling (embedded high pressure steam and chemical discharge nozzles that release with motion detection, built in high decibel loudspeakers (and infrasound)... and on and on.
Scaling isn’t the issue.
How does it stand up to a ‘59 Buick with a brick on the accelerator, doing 90 MPH? That’s the question.
There are Integrated Circuits that have tiny gravity meters. They could detect dirt removal or persons passing under them.
They forgot the graffiti that will adorn these slabs the 1st day they are up.
Any design that doesn’t include the option to use deadly force is incomplete.
LOL. As a software engineer, I've heard that again and again from high-up managers. Usually the ones who have no idea of the value of testing, and how much money testing saves in the long run.
Yep, pick one and get to building. Then when the design fails, the costs triple or quadruple because it has to be torn down and rebuilt.
Notice the view to the east. The fence stops where the terrain gets a little bit mountainous. If you go to Google earth and zoom in on the area near Enrico Fermi Drive and Siempre Viva Blvd. in San Diego CA you can see the foot paths leading from Mexico into the U.S. I hope that Trump goes down there, looks at those footpaths and says “What the hell is going on here?”
#6 wth the top of #4
I don’t think breaching any of these prototypes is going to be a difficult proposition.
I don’t think height would matter so much as much as electronic detection, maybe put sensors on the top or underneath with cameras positioned every so often where any border guard could take a look if one of those sensors are triggered. If there’s going to be no sensors then to me a wall it going to be pretty much useless. They’ll get through anything they put up, look at the tunnels the drug gangs dig.
Quote from written portion of article: “The wall was one of Mr Trump’s dominant campaign promises but few believe building it along 2,000 miles of border is realistic or feasible.”
I guess that Greg Milam, SkyNews’ US Correspondent, has never heard of the Alaska Highway. It was also not considered ‘feasible’. Construction started in March 1942 and was completed at the end of October 1942, stretching 1,422 miles from Dawson Creek, BC to Delta Junction, AK.
I guess that Mr. Milam also never heard of Apollo 11. When Kennedy announced on May 25, 1961, that the US would land a man on the moon before the end of the decade, that was also not considered ‘feasible’.
I hope that Mr. Milam enjoys crow for a main course!
There is only one effective wall design and that’s men with guns authorized to shoot you dead.
“Nobody could build these for 2000 miles”
This duffus has apparently never been to the Great Wall.
Round top is proven design. Grappling hooks slide off and no way to grab the top
Where are the ones with the motion activated auto .50? Or the ones with 30mm? Lets put those retired A-10 GAU-8s to good use!
I see no rabid Dobermans on the tops.
If you look at the FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulations), you will see that this prototype challenge is required by Federal Law. This applies to aircraft, weapons, armor and even sweat socks. (FAR 16.7).
This works in the Government’s favor by forcing competitors to bid not only on price and design. Much better than investing hundreds of millions on a bad design.
Mexico has not yet provided the money to build the wall..
That was the deal. No Taxpayer funding for the actual construction was part of the proposed deal.
No mexican money.......no wall
The ones with the see-thru bottoms are failures.
Launch a weighted rope over the top and down the other side. Tie it around the see-thru support and you can scale over the wall easily.
The ones with a flat top fail also as a grappling hook can attach to them.
The ones with the rounded top and solid walls are best to prevent easy scaling
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